Western Political Thought

Plot

Reversal

Character

Spectacle

The Sophists

Any Athenian on the street

An oracle

Gorgias

Aristophanes

Socrates

Xemophon

None of these

Plato

Aristotle

Socrates

Xenophon

That virtue is truth

That Socrates is a bad influence

That he can teach virtue

That he can’t teach virtue

How can one look for what one does not know?

How can those without virtue be elected if democracy is virtuous?

Xeno’s paradox

How can virtue be wisdom but not knowledge?

Reason

Fear

Altruism

Greed

General will

Corporate will

Particular will

If I don’t, no one will

Continence

Desire

Ignorance

Complacence

Mathew Mc Cubbins

Hedley Bull

Immanuel Kant

None of these